Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

My advice to founders out there is to not volunteer too much, but be open and honest in the face of direct questions like the following: What is your burn rate and runway today? As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My advice to founders out there is to not volunteer too much, but be open and honest in the face of direct questions like the following: What is your burn rate and runway today? As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large.

Due Diligence 253

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 253

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2012

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. People hire people they know, so nurture your relationship with friends already active in startups. Make sure you believe in the product and the people. What's the monthly burn rate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2011

Stock options, if you get them, won’t help you pay the mortgage for a least a couple of years, and the value then is totally unpredictable. People hire people they know, so nurture your relationship with friends already active in startups. Make sure you believe in the product and the people. What's the monthly burn rate?

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Startup Stock Options 227

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

My advice to founders out there is to not volunteer too much, but be open and honest in the face of direct questions like the following: What is your burn rate and runway today? As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

My advice to founders out there is to not volunteer too much, but be open and honest in the face of direct questions like the following: What is your burn rate and runway today? As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large.

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Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 174

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2010

My advice to founders out there is to not volunteer too much, but be open and honest in the face of direct questions like the following: What is your burn rate and runway today? As an employee, you salary will likely be low, your job security low, so the job title better be large, and the stock options better be large.

Due Diligence 229

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup 229

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. After ten weeks work the three friends have built a prototype thatgives one a taste of what their product will do.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We entrepreneurs constantly try to refine our product or model, so it is only natural to think that we should refine ourselves. Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly?

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